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Trump eyes staff cuts to top spy agency as he sweeps aside Iran intelligence (Stars & Stripes)
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-06-27/donald-trump-cuts-top-spy-agency-18268837.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p11#a250628p11

Spain heatwave was 'most intense on record' #Spain

Spain heatwave was 'most intense on record'
A 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was "the most intense on record," the national meteorological agency said on Sunday.

I find it interesting that meteorology, volcanology, and seismology in Japan 🇯🇵 are all under the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
https://www.jma.go.jp
In the Philippines 🇵🇭 these are separated into two: the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA, and the Ph…

The billions and billions of dollars this bill pumps into ICE far exceed any conceivable legitimate need the agency could have, even if you agree with its mission.
This bill takes the same masked, anonymous gunmen who have been kidnapping people off the streets and gives them a budget the size of a military.
This is not about honoring the law. This is not even about immigrants.
This is about creating a police state.
I see no other way to read these numbers.
https://mastodon.world/@MJmusicinears/114764606160963355

NFL free agency: Veteran receiver says he is 'absolutely' interested in possibly signing with the Steelers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

RFK Jr. targets CDC with a ridiculous complaint as chaos grips the agency (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rfk-jr-targets-cdc-ridiculous-complaint-chaos-grips-agency-rcna227978
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p48#a250829p48

"AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Environment

AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration
A dataset unveiled today more than doubles the documented stream miles in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, elevating the total from approximately 150,000 to nearly 350,000 miles. The Hyper-Resolution Hydrography Data used to generate the new stream maps stems from a collaboration between the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), and the Chesapeake Conservancy (CC), including UMBC alumni at CBP and CC.

Well I had a productive night, (and far too long of one at that...) I managed to finally get my network diagnostics script rewritten with standard libraries and curses support over on
https://github.com/eVAL-Agency/net-diag
Currently it supports Linux and Windows, but I…

Tom Lehrer wasn't just a satirist or a musician. He as a comedian who could quietly tell a joke and wait more than SIXTY YEARS for the payoff.
That's dedication to craft.
We lost an icon.
From:
https://bsky.app/profile/opalescentopa

Some employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema)
-- who signed a public letter of dissent earlier this week
-- were put on administrative leave on Tuesday evening
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

Will Raiders CB Be a Free Agency Steal? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-eric-stokes-elandon-roberts-jeremy-chinn-pete-carroll

Incinerator broke air pollution limits 916 times #environment

Croydon incinerator broke pollution limits 916 times in two years
The Environment Agency are currently considering enforcement action against the operator, Viridor.

“DeepSeek has not been able to provide my agency with convincing evidence that German users' data is protected in China to a level equivalent to that in the European Union," Kamp said.”
But ChatGPT , Claude , CoPilot and Gemini are OK ? 🤣
https://www.

CDC director Susan Monarez is fired and other agency leaders resign (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-director-susan-monarez-50dfbec849b53b4593755d2e6e616687
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p46#a250828p46

https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/07/trumps-cisa-nominee-confident-he-can-get-funding-cyber-agency-where-needed/406961/
Trump’s CISA nominee is confident he can get funding to cyber agency wh…

Trump’s CISA nominee is confident he can get funding to cyber agency where needed
Sean Plankey, a former Energy Department cyber official, tussled with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., over 2020 election security during his confirmation hearing. He also committed to the renewal of a key cyber information-sharing law before it soon expires.

De Environmental Protection Agency draait onder dwang van de regering, de schadelijkheid van CO2-uitstoot voor het klimaat terug en dat wordt de basis voor Trumps nieuwe industriebeleid.
En roken is binnenkort ook weer gezond.
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Ch…
https://archive.ph/ODtAY

CISA steps in to help Nevada state government recover from cyberattack https://therecord.media/cisa-steps-nevada-cyber-state

Eagles sign DB Marcus Epps to a deal ahead of Week 1 matchup vs. Cowboys https://theeagleswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2025/08/27/eagles-marcus-epps-nfl-free-agency/85859950007/

With CDC in chaos, scientists and physicians piece together replacements for agency's lost work (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/cdc-vaccine-recommendations-data-b4eeba69e03a8d4ed50fb0a12fbcec6e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p28#a250829p28

In a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-t…

Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group
CEO Eddie Wu said the restructuring ‘marks a strategic upgrade from an e-commerce platform to a comprehensive consumer platform’.

'Resistance inside Russia is growing' — Su-27UB jet set alight in Krasnodar Krai, Ukraine's HUR claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/resistance-inside-russia-is-growing.html

Hannah wants more whole grain, so, first attempt at sourdough rye drop biscuits. Egg bacon tea coffee. Chill night ahead but I gotta go yell at my transit agency board today! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/dBDxRQycm6jdq4oaA

Trump Official Holds Up Trump's Picture After Being Questioned Over Hundreds of Job Cuts to Her Agency
https://www.latintimes.com/trump-official-holds-trumps-picture-after-being-questioned-over-hundreds-job-cuts-her-agency-585629

I recently saw a news story (CHEK News, Victoria, Porter Air) about a couple denied boarding because they could not produce the credit card used to book the flight.
According to experts, this was illegal in Canadian law. The airline's “tariff" — the actual contract between air carrier and passenger — had no such requirement.
The Canadian Transportation Agency lists the tariffs for 116 airlines. Might be worth having one literally in your back pocket when you fly.
https://otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/air-carrier-tariffs-posted-websites

Fed official sues Trump over attempt to fire her, challenging his power over the independent agency (Christopher Rugaber/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-cook-trump-308f2e6ac04f62643d96b8347d5b2417
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p57#a250828p57

Der Extremismus einer lebensmüden Ideologie, die unter dem Deckmantel-Framing von #Freiheit das Leben zig tausender Menschen riskiert und bereitwillig Leid und Elend akzeptiert, kennt keine Grenzen.
Die US Emergency Management Agency suspendiert Leute, die eben diese Gefahren anspricht. Ein Vorgehen, dass ich auch Leuten wie Dobrindt, Klöckner und ihren rechtsextremen Vortänzern bei der rec…

Lithuania-based PR agency Wellstone PR launches Synapse, an AI tool that automatically drafts expert comment email responses to journalist queries (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agency-sells-ai-too…

PR agency sells AI tool which sends out automated expert comment to journalists
A PR agency is selling an AI tool which automatically answers pitches from journalists on services such as ResponseSource, HARO and Qwoted.

Will the C.D.C. Survive? -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the agency ... (Apoorva Mandavilli/Associated Press)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/health/cdc-kennedy-public-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h08.DJ5A.xC3Uv8ZTsRLq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p60#a250829p60

I also noticed what @… noticed: the Minneapolis police — Minneapolis!! — having to warn citizens about another law enforcement agency who are even more dangerous and less accountable than they are. https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/114752072701388506

💸 Agency for college athlete payment deals agrees to loosen third-party restrictions
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/31/agency-for-college-athlete-payment-deals-agrees-to-loosen-third-party-restrictio…

🚨Job Alert - Curatorial Specialist (Research Associate) at Texas A&M for Scientific Ocean Drilling core materials and collections at the Gulf Coast Repository (GCR). #geology
https://

GCR Curatorial Specialist
Job TitleGCR Curatorial Specialist Agency Texas A&M University Department International Ocean Discovery Program Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationCollege Station, Texas Job TypeStaff Job Description Our Commitment Texas A&M University is committed to enriching the learning and working environment by promoting a culture that respects all perspectives, talents & lived experiences. Embracing varying opinions and perspectives strengthens our core values which are: Respect, Excellence,…

IXAII: An Interactive Explainable Artificial Intelligence Interface for Decision Support Systems
Pauline Speckmann, Mario Nadj, Christian Janiesch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21310

IXAII: An Interactive Explainable Artificial Intelligence Interface for Decision Support Systems
Although several post-hoc methods for explainable AI have been developed, most are static and neglect the user perspective, limiting their effectiveness for the target audience. In response, we developed the interactive explainable intelligent system called IXAII that offers explanations from four explainable AI methods: LIME, SHAP, Anchors, and DiCE. Our prototype provides tailored views for five user groups and gives users agency over the explanations' content and their format. We evaluated I…

2025 NFL Free Agency Tracker: Shemar Stewart, Bengals Finally Reach Rookie Deal https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

AI in the Writing Process: How Purposeful AI Support Fosters Student Writing
Momin N. Siddiqui, Roy Pea, Hari Subramonyam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20595 …

AI in the Writing Process: How Purposeful AI Support Fosters Student Writing
The ubiquity of technologies like ChatGPT has raised concerns about their impact on student writing, particularly regarding reduced learner agency and superficial engagement with content. While standalone chat-based LLMs often produce suboptimal writing outcomes, evidence suggests that purposefully designed AI writing support tools can enhance the writing process. This paper investigates how different AI support approaches affect writers' sense of agency and depth of knowledge transformation. T…

I can't believe it's 2025 and we're still doing this. #AbolishStateDOTs
https://lemmy.world/post/31872843

California highway project will ‘dump half a billion dollars into the ocean’ - Lemmy.World
Caltrans has proposed a $500 million project to widen a wine country highway that the agency said could be underwater in 25 years. Members of the California Transportation Commission will decide at a public meeting beginning Thursday whether to award Caltrans and local agencies a $73 million grant that would cover some of the cost to widen Highway 37 — a roadway linking Vallejo to Sears Point across the Napa Sonoma Marsh, much of which is only one lane in each direction. In the long term, Cal…

You know it won't be long now when you see stories like https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/23/sharepoint-targeted-by-chinese-threat-actor-hackers-says-microsoft

Chalk up another big win for the #Windows and #Instagram folks! Bombing innocents is the only way to be truly social!
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/world/israels-spy-agency-used-ai-and-smuggled-in-drones-to-prepare-attack-on-iran/article_ce2d0fbc-ae83-5266-af3f-e1cf35feface.html
see also
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9

This choice of price point undercuts OpenAI and Anthropic ($1 each) but that's still effectively zero.
I am surprised that the obvious numerological pandering isn't pointed out in the article
Google’s ‘Gemini for Government’ offers AI platform to federal agencies for 47 cents | FedScoop

Google’s ‘Gemini for Government’ offers AI platform to federal agencies for 47 cents
The OneGov deal gives Google a pricing edge over competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic, which offer their models for $1 per federal agency.

Whistlejacket is a Brand, Design and Communications Agency from the UK. They commissioned me to create illustrations and iconography, and build an interactive digital handbook for the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
#Design #Illustration #Portfolio

Too many inconvenient truths coming from that.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/nasas-acting-chie…

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

Anti-graft agency charges SBU officer with bribery amid mounting pressure on anti-corruption institutions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/antigraft-agency-charges-sbu-officer.html

Former Trump FEMA leader says agency is 'delaying' aid (Thomas Frank/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/27/former-trump-fema-leader-says-agency-is-delaying-aid-00529255
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p141#a250827p141

16) Who replaces Jourdan Lewis in the slot? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/16-who-replaces-jourdan-lewis-in-the-slot

2025 NFL Free Agency Tracker: Seahawks Reunite With CB Shaq Griffin https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

“There are arguments to be made that if the intelligence services were being created from scratch now, we wouldn’t have a separate HUMINT versus SIGINT agency,” suggests Rory Cormac, an expert at the University of Nottingham.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/08/

The choices facing Britain’s next MI6 chief
Human espionage has never been harder, costlier—or more important

In recent days, Trump has targeted CNN and The New York Times for their reporting on the strikes. He has condemned the coverage as “unpatriotic” and even floated the possibility of legal action.
The two outlets reported that preliminary findings from the US’s Defense Intelligence Agency indicated the strikes had only limited success. The bombings delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions by several months but stopped short of destroying the program outright.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/trump-iran-military-strike-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Fuck Israel.
Fuck the IDF.
Fuck the US.
Fuck every other government too frightened to do anything.
We need get relief to Gaza by *any means necessary*. Now. There are no more excuses for delays.
https://www.

Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse

The firing follows a June preliminary assessment from the DIA
— the Pentagon’s main intelligence wing
— of the Iran military strikes,
which prompted vicious backlash from the Trump administration.

Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest national security senior officer to be purged.

intellectually, I always knew those "podcast interview” and “street interview” ads on Instagram were fake, but little did I know there's a whole big-ass agency specialized just on that: https://www.sgsocialbranding.com

SG Social Branding
Street interviews, UGC, skits, podcast clips, and more — entirely to be used only by your brand. We create what gets noticed by Gen Z. Our short form video content is used by top quality brands for organic social and/or paid ads. Purposeful videos for top of funnel awareness or bottom of funnel purchases.

“How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype”
https://hidde.blog/ai-hype/
Largely agree. I’m careful about the words I use on when I talk / post about it. I avoid terms that anthropomorphize, imply agency, reasoning, etc. I ask people to clarify *which* technology when they say “AI” (…

Signs that your post about AI helps the hype
If we're not cautious, we may accidentally feed the AI hype by talking about it in specific ways.

Los Angeles Dodgers say they denied ICE agents entry to Dodger Stadium;
Baseball team says ICE agents were denied permission to access parking lots but agency claims agents ‘were never there’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/ice-agents…

Trump is Destroying Our Oldest Science Agency
#NowWatching

On 17 June the European Space Agency (ESA) and OHB System AG sealed their agreement to build ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, #LISA: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/LISA/Construction_of_ESA_s_ambitious_LISA_mission_begins - a bold scientific enterprise, the triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves.

The US CFTC staff describe chaos, cutbacks, and an atmosphere of resentment and paranoia as the agency prepares to take on new crypto regulatory duties (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-21/as-crypto-duti…

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program (Chandelis Duster/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/26/nx-s1-5481304/nasa-employees-deferred-resignation-program
http://www.memeorandum.com/250727/p46#a250727p46

16) Who replaces Jourdan Lewis in the slot? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/16-who-replaces-jourdan-lewis-in-the-slot

Felicity Oswald, chief operating officer at UK’s NCSC, set to leave cyber agency https://therecord.media/felicity-oswald-ncsc-coo-uk

The US Environmental Protection Agency's retreat from science endangers the health of people and the planet https://phys.org/news/2025-07-environmental-agency-retreat-science-endangers.html

The US Environmental Protection Agency's retreat from science endangers the health of people and the planet
Pollution causes more illness and early death than any other environmental threat, accounting for one in six deaths worldwide. For decades, the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) has driven many of the biggest advances for safeguarding human health and ecosystems from chemicals. Now, this scientific research office is being closed down by the US government

Over half of MPs suspected by NABU backed law curbing anti-corruption agency's independence: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/over-half-of-mps-suspected.html

Happening now: CISA Director nominee Sean Plankey is finally getting his confirmation hearing. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/nominations-11/

Nominations - Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Nominations of Pedro Allende to be Under Secretary for Science & Technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Sean Plankey to be Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Paul Ingrassia to be Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel; Charles Arrington to be a Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority; Christopher Fox to […]

Sources: the US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work (Sarah Owermohle/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/fda-ai-elsa-drug-regulation-makary

FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up studies
Insiders tell CNN the FDA’s AI is “hallucinating” studies and can’t access key documents. Agency leaders insist the AI is getting better, and use is not mandatory.

This is completely crazy if you think about digital sovereignty....
#spain

Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps
Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.

Tom Brady wanted Raiders to stay away from this veteran quarterback during free agency, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tom-bra

Reliability, Embeddedness, and Agency: A Utility-Driven Mathematical Framework for Agent-Centric AI Adoption
Faruk Alpay, Taylan Alpay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12896 https://

Reliability, Embeddedness, and Agency: A Utility-Driven Mathematical Framework for Agent-Centric AI Adoption
We formalize three design axioms for sustained adoption of agent-centric AI systems executing multi-step tasks: (A1) Reliability > Novelty; (A2) Embed > Destination; (A3) Agency > Chat. We model adoption as a sum of a decaying novelty term and a growing utility term and derive the phase conditions for troughs/overshoots with full proofs. We introduce: (i) an identifiability/confounding analysis for $(α,β,N_0,U_{\max})$ with delta-method gradients; (ii) a non-monotone comparator (logistic-with…

MCEDA buys The Tuskegee News to prevent the Alabama city from becoming a news desert, in what seems to be a first for a US economic development agency (Sarah Clifton/Montgomery Advertiser)
https://www.

160-year-old Tuskegee newspaper to remain in business after purchase by Macon County
"It's about preserving the voice of a community and protecting our momentum and economic development."

2025 NFL Free Agency Tracker: Raiders Add 3-Time Pro Bowler Jamal Adams https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

Polarizing Ex-Raiders Starter Signs With Dolphins in Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jack-jones-dolphins-contract-signing/?adt_ei=[email]

Kari Lake declares US Agency for Global Media 'rotten to the core,' sets 2026 shutdown goal: 'A boondoggle' (Jasmine Baehr/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kari-lake-declares-us-agency-global-media-rotten-core-sets-2026-shutdown-goal-boondoggle
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p151#a250625p151

California privacy regulator approves watered-down AI rules https://therecord.media/california-privacy-agency-approves-ai-rules

Alan Friedman, who has toiled for years to make SBOM a reality, is leaving CISA.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allanafried

I’ve already shared this with the CISA SBOM community, but wanted to post here as well: my time at CISA is coming to a close. | Allan Friedman, PhD
I’ve already shared this with the CISA SBOM community, but wanted to post here as well: my time at CISA is coming to a close. My last day will be July 31. It’s been an extraordinary chapter, made possible by brilliant colleagues at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and an incredible global community who turned an ambitious idea into a meaningful shift in how we think about digital trust. I’ll have more to say soon in reflection and gratitude. In the meantime, I remain com…

Ukraine’s anti-corruption chief on how his agency became a target — and what’s next: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/ukraines-anticorruption-chief-on-how.html

Trump Fires Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook in Unprecedented Attack on Agency Independence (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-fires-federal-reserve-gov-lisa-cook-in-unprecedented-attack-on-agency-independece/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p144#a250825p144

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag,
a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters,
was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-appeal-to…

Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromised (Ari Natter/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Christian Wilkins Out: Raiders Close The Book On Major Free Agency Miss https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/24/christian-wilkins-out-raiders-close-the-book-on-major-free-agency-miss/

Trey Hendrickson contract: Bengals, star DE agree to major raise in final year of deal after lengthy standoff

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trey-he

An interview with Mario Guevara, who faces deportation to El Salvador and says ICE detained him as direct retaliation for his coverage of the agency's raids (Lautaro Grinspan/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/news/2025/07/direct-re

Drone incidents reported in Moscow and St. Petersburg, dozens of flights disrupted: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/drone-incidents-reported-in-moscow.html

RFK Jr. Accuses Gavi, Global Vaccine Agency, of Ignoring Science (Stephanie Nolen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/kennedy-vaccines-gavi.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p69#a250625p69

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday it is
eliminating its research and development arm
and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.
One union leader said the moves “will devastate public health in our country”.
https://www.

Google will provide Gemini for Government to US federal agencies at $0.47 per agency through 2026; OpenAI and Anthropic are offering their products for $1/year (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5463428-google-ai-cloud-services-fede…

2025 NFL Free Agency Tracker: Former Jets, Ravens LB C.J. Mosley retires https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/06/cisas-executive-director-leaving-agency/405981/
CISA’s executive director is leaving the agency

CISA’s executive director is leaving the agency
Bridget Bean had been with CISA for over three years, during which time she also briefly served as the acting director of the cyber agency.

NFL roster updates: Team-by-team signings, trades, contract details during the 2025 offseason https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-latest-signings-trades-contract-info-for-all-32-teams

Former Raiders cornerback Jack Jones finds new home with AFC team https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/former-raiders-cornerback-jack-jones-new-home-afc-team/45cbdb60420be0770cd7cc0d

Serious pollution incidents by English water companies rose 60% last year https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/18/serious-pollution-incidents-englands-water-companies-data

Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of product safety agency (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-fire-members-product-safety-agency-rcna218882
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p142#a250723p142

Amari Cooper returns to Raiders, reunites with only one teammate https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/amari-cooper-returns-raiders-reunites-only-one-teammate/0da7f0eac98d9eb3fa00f1c3…

North Korea is building a new facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex that is similar to a known uranium enrichment site, says the International Atomic Energy Agency
https://www.dw.com/en/is-north-korea-boosting-its-nuclear-capabilities/a-7295378…

Is North Korea boosting its nuclear capabilities?
North Korea is building a new facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex that is similar to a known uranium enrichment site, says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/richard-angle-nsa-cyber-command-00415619
“The Trump administration has been searching for permanent leadership for the powerful signals intelligence agency, as the outbreak of war between Israel and Iran r…

Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on his nonprofit LawZero focusing on AI safety, its research direction, risks of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems, and more (Sigal Samuel/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417087/ai-safety-yoshua-bengio-lawze…

He’s the godfather of AI. Now, he has a bold new plan to keep us safe from it.
Humans — not AI systems — should be the ones with agency, says the godfather of AI.

Pentagon Fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/defense-intelligence-agency-chief-fired.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p113#a250822p113

US Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack (Ari Natter/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/us-nuclear-weapons-agency-breached-in-microsoft-sharepoint-hack
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p148#a250722p148

2025 NFL Free Agency Tracker: Commanders Sign Von Miller https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

The Office of Management and Budget has drafted a memorandum that directs federal agencies to fully migrate to a post-quantum cryptographic standard,.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/07/omb-draft-memo-sets-agenc…

OMB draft memo sets agency and vendor quantum security standards
The Office of Management and Budget is drafting a new memorandum to outline steps for the federal government’s migration to a post-quantum cryptographic standard.

Tesla Robotaxi Incidents Draw Scrutiny From US Safety Agency (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/tesla-robotaxi-videos-show-speeding-driving-into-wrong-lane
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p157#a250623p157

The Raiders are Rolling the Dice https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jakobi-myers-kolton-miller-pete-carroll-john-spytek

Germany-based Q.ANT, which is developing energy-efficient photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, raised a €62M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/17/qant-raises-eur62m-to-transform-the…

Q.ANT raises €62M to transform the future of computing with photonic processing
Germany-based Q.ANT, a pioneer in photonic processing, has secured €62 million Series A financing round to accelerate the commercialisation of its energy-efficient photonic processors for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC).  As AI infrastructure scales globally, traditional chip technology (CMOS) reaches its physical limits, performance stagnates, and electricity demand is reaching untenable levels. According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA…

2025 NFL Free Agency Tracker: Dolphins Add Pass Rush Help, Sign Matthew Judon https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfl-free-agency-tracker-signings-updates-best-players-available

Far-Right 'Appeal to Heaven' Flag Flown Above Government Agency in DC (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-appeal-to-heaven-flag-sba-government-agency-dc/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p157#a250617p157